{"product_id":"half-life-a-novel","title":"Half Life: A Novel","description":"The USA Today bestselling author of In\nAnother Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie\nusing a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that\nmirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for\nscience if she’d made a different choice.\n\nIn Poland in 1891, Marie Curie\n(then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz\nZorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he\nbroke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she\nwould attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie\nCurie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first\nwoman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a\ndifferent choice?\n\nWhat if she had stayed in Poland,\nmarried Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or\ndiscovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant\nhunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted,\ninstead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie?\nEntwining Marie Curie’s real story\nwith Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and\ndestinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and\nclass, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and\nknowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian\nCantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great\nscientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how\nthe lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved – as well as the world\nat large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed\nin ways both great and small.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062969889\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.0062969889.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Cantor, Jillian\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book  is in good condition and has some writing, underlining, and or highlighting inside. Cover may have some cosmetic wear.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52147217858861,"sku":"HBSV.0062969889.G","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/0062969889-0.jpg?v=1781296762","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/half-life-a-novel","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}